Frame for the pillows of coffins



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FRAME FOR THE PILLOWS 0F GOPPINS.

Patented Apr. 9, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CYRUS KRAUSER, OF LEEPER, PENNSYLVANIA.

FRAME FOR THE PILLOWS OF COFFINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters latent No. 401,284, dated April 9, 1889.

Application filed March 22, 1888. Serial No. 269,04=0- (N0 model.)

To an whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CYRUs KRAUSER, of Leeper, in the county of Clarion and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Frame for the Pillows of Coffins and Burial-Caskets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to prevent the puckering or wrinkling of that part of the surface of the pillow fora coffin or casket which is presented to view around the head of the corpse.

To this end my invention consists in a frame of novel construction, hereinafter described and claimed, to be attached to the upper surface of the pillow near the margin thereof.

Figure 1 in the accompanying drawings is a plan view of the head portion of a burialcasket having the covering removed, and showing a pillow having my improved frame attached and representing the head of a corpse resting on the pillow. Fig. 2 represents a section of the upper part of the frame parallel with Fig. 1. Fig. 3 represents a transverse vertical section in the line a: as of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 represents a transverse section of one of the sides of the frame.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

The frame may be constructed of wood or metal. Its general form is that of a semicircular or nearly semicircular are having the sides prolonged in a direction parallel with each other and left open at the ends. 1 prefer, generally, to make it of two principal members, A A, each of which constitutes one of the two parallel side portions of the frame, and one-half of the arc or head thereof, and to connect these two pieces at the center of the are by a dowel or tenon, a, and a mortise, b, which provides to some extent for the lateral expansion and contraction and vertical flexure of the frame. This central joint is represented as being embraced within and concealed by a sleeve, B, into which the ends of the joint are loosely fitted in such manner that the said sleeve does not interfere with the slight fiexure or lateral expansion and contraction. The sleeve and the principal membersA A maybe ornamented in any way and may have inscribed upon them a scriptural or other suitable motto.

The back surface of this frame may be flat,

and may have permanently cemented to it a strip of cloth of corresponding form, which affords facility for its being conveniently and expeditiously attached to a pillow, E, by paste or other suitable adhesive material, or the members A A may have their edges turned downward, as shown at c c in Fig. 4, to form flanges, which may be perforated at intervals with small holes, through which the frame may be sewed to the surface of the pillow E. The frame being thus applied to the pillow, near the margin thereof, and the pillow being placed in the cofiin or casket D, the head of the corpse is laid in the center of the pillow and then occupies aposition nearly central to the arc-formed portion thereof, and when it sinks into the pillow, as it will naturally do, the frame, while keeping the pillow extended, will yield sufficiently, both by flexure and contraction, to allow the pillow to adapt itself to the head, and will at the same time prevent unsightly puckering and wrinkling.

The frame might, when cheapness is considered, be made of a single piece; butIprefer, in order that it may have a certain degree of flexure and contractile adjustment, to make it in two parts, as described.

A pillow with this frame attached may be used in a coffin without a head-rest, or with such head-rests as are the subjects of Letters Patent Nos. 368,721 and 377,164. In the latter case the pillow will be laid on the headrest, and the frame will occupy a position over the head-rest.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination, with a pillow, of a frame consisting of an are having its sides prolonged substantially parallel with each other and open at their ends, substantially as herein described.

2. A frame for a pillow, composed of two CYRUS KRAUSER.

Witnesses:

J. L. KRAUSER, SAML. K. CLARKE.

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